LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “More matter, with __ art”:
“Hamlet”
5 Early music label
8 Indulgent places
12 Playwright Chekhov
14 See 15-Across
15 With 14-Across, deal-breaking
words
16 Combined
17 Play area
18 Partially, informally
19 Take off
21 Gets an A+, say
23 Cut back, in a way
24 Spite
25 With 38-Across, what the
highlighted squares suggest 29 Added things
32 Brief alarm
33 Parents can relax during them 37 “Enough!”
38 See 25-Across
40 Joanne of film
41 Daytona Beach-based sports
org.
44 Bacon serving
47 With 49-Across, author of the novel suggested by this puzzle’s theme; the movie debuted 10/17/1956
49 See 47-Across
50 Bullish?
52 Validates
55 Quaint store sign word 56 Tapir feature
58 Campus figure
59 Try to expose
61 Sick 62 Prefix with meter 63 Dagger-shaped symbols 64 Bran type
65 Vary
66 Sneak, maybe
67 Natl. park sights 68 Disinfectant brand
DOWN
1 Scottish estate holder 2 Been-there-done-that feeling 3 Pit
4 Brahms piano trio
5 Optimistic
6 Prompt
7 Routing abbr.
8 In danger of flooding, as a river 9 Indian follower of Zoroastrianism
10 Bit of silliness
11 City-__
13 More of a surprise
15 NBA legend Thomas 20 Disturbance
22 Receipt fig.
26 It offered soldiers Hope: Abbr. 27 Fish-fowl link
28 Web transmission technology:
Abbr.
29 An express might skip yours:
Abbr.
30 Thurman on screen
31 Didn’t read right
34 Followers
35 Face front?
36 Face front?
38 Small songbirds
39 P&G detergent brand 42 Snake oil, purportedly
43 __ Ewoldt, first AsianAmerican to play Christine in Broadway’s “Phantom” 45 Boxer’s speech?
46 Dudley’s toon foe
48 __ moment
49 Events for Biles
50 Chore list items
51 Criminal defense
53 San __, Northern California
city
54 Cur’s warning
57 Name of five Norwegian kings 60 Secure (to)
62 Sidekick